{"id":6688,"date":"2012-06-20T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=6688"},"modified":"2022-09-29T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T01:56:36","slug":"notes-on-the-apology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=6688","title":{"rendered":"The Apology of Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two documents here.<\/p>\n<p>The first are notes on a close reading of the text.<\/p>\n<p>The second are notes on the two self-presentations of Socrates in the Apology, as Achilles and as a gadfly. My suggestions is that we can organize a number of features of Socrates&#8217;s self-presentation in terms of these two different models.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-1\" style=\"-webkit-overflow-scrolling:auto;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen wppdf-emb-iframe-1\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?pdfemb-data=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbWFyY3N0aWVyLmNvbVwvYmxvZzJcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjJcLzA5XC9BcG9sb2d5LUNsYXNzLU5vdGVzLnBkZiIsInRpdGxlIjoiQXBvbG9neSBDbGFzcyBOb3RlcyIsImluZGV4IjoxLCJwZGZJRCI6MH0\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-id=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"border:none;width:100%;max-width:600px;height:600px;\"\n\t\t\t\tscrolling=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t<\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<p>This chart summarizes two levels of meaning in Socrates&#8217; self-presentation, one in which he compares himself to Achilles and the other in which he compares himself to a \u00a0gadfly. The former is his self-presentation to most of the Athenians; the latter is his self-presentation to his fellow philosophers or students of philosophy. \u00a0The former is fairly close to the canonical interpretation of the Apology which takes Socrates&#8217; self-presentation unironically. \u00a0The latter is the interpretation of Socrates&#8217; speech if one assumes that most of it is meant ironically. 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A full interpretation of Socrate&#8217;s irony must\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=6688\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8306,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P35YuU-1JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9271,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6688\/revisions\/9271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}